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Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Sam B. Girgus Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies . By Wilson George M. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . viii , 220 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 . Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship . By Auerbach Jonathan . Durham, NC...
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Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Michael Lundblad In Epistemology of the Closet , Eve Sedgwick argues that the discourse of sexuality shifted at the end of the nineteenth century from an emphasis on sexual acts to sexual identities. Sedgwick builds upon Foucault's famous declaration that the “species” of the homosexual was born...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 151–153.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Kathryn Walkiewicz Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity . By Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga . Tucson : Univ. of Arizona Press . 2018 . 215 pp. Paper, $35.00 ; e-book, $35.00 . Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary...
View articletitled, Yaqui Indigeneity: <span class="search-highlight">Epistemology</span>, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970
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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans
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American Literature 11792395.
Published: 07 March 2025
... uninhabitable due to coastal land loss. This article considers the ecological and gendered history of the Ursuline convent as a case study in architectural epistemology. Each section analyzes a genre of architectural epistemology—a gridded map, colonial correspondence, an architectural schema, a watercolor...
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Colonizing the Heavens and Earth: Eclecticism, Epistemology, and Evangelism in the Jesuit Valentin Stansel’s Astronomy
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American Literature 11792411.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Ruth Hill Abstract Scholars behind the epistemological turn in Latin American literary and cultural studies have paid scant attention to seventeenth-century science and scientific eclecticism. Yet, the ancient Greek school of philosophy known as eclecticism inspired Baroque philosophers to fuse...
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Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 311–337.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Bryan Wagner Duke University Press 2001 Bryan Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology
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Ghosts of Essentialism: Racial Memory as Epistemological Claim
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 361–386.
Published: 01 June 2009
... is defined by an essence that predetermines an individual's identity in racial terms. Su proposes to shift the way essentialism is analyzed, to consider it in epistemological rather than ontological terms. This would involve focusing on the extent to which racial memory in these texts enables, prohibits...
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Afterword: The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies
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American Literature 11845243.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Ralph Bauer Ralph Bauer Afterword: The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies Although I have not been able to locate with cer- tainty the rst occurrence of the phrase epistemological turn in reference to recent trends in American literary history, it is safe to say that it has...
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Transcending Boundaries: The Network Concept in Nineteenth-Century American Philosophy and Literature
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Regina Schober The network is a figure of thought that began to emerge as a concrete physical formation and as a conceptual model long before the digital revolution. Following recent scholarship on historical network epistemology, this essay traces such network thinking in nineteenth-century US...
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Touching The Scarlet Letter : What Disability History Can Teach Us about Literature
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 91–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Sari Altschuler Abstract This essay demonstrates the value of disability history for literary and cultural studies. It develops historical cripistemology as a method through which to examine the historical experiences and epistemologies, rather than representations, of disability in particular...
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Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 September 2023
... genealogy of Vietnamese diasporic aesthetics based on the element of fire. Theorizing fire as another critical site of refugee passages, these works evince a pyric refugee onto-epistemology, one that conceives of fire and ash as explicit matter-metaphors of living and beauty that refuse the sensory...
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Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 301–329.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of neurodiverse Afro-fabulation that do not simply refute claims of Black inferiority through a representational politics of counterfacts, but fabulate, exaggerate, and deliberately foreground eccentric, excessive, and “irrational” ways of knowing that have their roots in diasporic epistemologies. Ultimately...
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Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 729–753.
Published: 01 December 2023
... that Plascencia’s novel demonstrates reflexivity’s autopoietic ability to examine the interstitial relationship between material embodiment and nonhuman agencies. By moving away from Borgesian self-regulation toward self-assembly, The People of Paper gradually sheds the epistemological preoccupations of its world...
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Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Rolt-Wheeler portrays bureaucracy as an imperialist adventure in which white boys should joyfully partake, La Flesche offers a portrayal of the harm that this incessantly quantitative thinking did to Native children, but he also adds a nuanced critique of the epistemologies underlying such thinking...
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Tapping the Wire: A Telegraphic Discourse
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
...” analyses this cultural evolution in light of poststructuralist media-theoretical paradigms to come to a closer understanding of the epistemological issues these fictions brought to bear on telegraphy as the first truly digital means of communication—and arguably the founding technology of our current...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Kate Simpkins Abstract Key aspects of the plantation economy, centered in the early Caribbean, include the theft of Indigenous land, agricultural monocropping, and racial capitalism as well as an epistemological effort to separate out humans, animals, and plants...
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The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... The essay also shows how Dunbar’s novel contributes to several fields of contemporary intellectual interest, among them Civil War studies, Afropessimist thought, and a cross-disciplinary investigation of negative epistemologies known as “ignorance studies.” Ultimately, the essay concludes that Civil War...
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The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of Hemings’s archival trace with Jefferson’s own charts and tables, Klein demonstrates how we must rethink the empiricist epistemology of the visible that endures to this day. After a brief discussion of data visualization as it relates to the construction of race, Klein turns to the issue of labor...
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“For Ought Is Known”: Hearsay, Antislavery, and the Golden Rule in Colonial North America
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American Literature 11792387.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Jeffrey Glover Abstract During the seventeenth century, European writers and scientists increasingly embraced eyewitness testimony as a means of ascertaining facts. This article describes how Protestant writers in North American colonies deployed this eyewitness epistemology in arguments over...
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Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther , 1998–2016
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 221–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... diasporic considerations to ground the task of interpretation in conditions that elicit compromise among disparate lines of theoretical inquiry: queer phenomenology, decolonial epistemology, Afrofuturism, and queer of color critique. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 comics utopia...
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